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Affordable homes target slashed to 20% to tackle London’s housebuilding crisis

The Government said a perfect storm of economic conditions has created a housebuilding emergency.

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Sadiq Khan gets go-ahead to slash affordable housing ratio to 20% to tackle London housing crisis

New target is announced by Housing Secretary Steve Reed after weeks of speculation - but critics say it won’t solve housing emergency

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London Living Wage jumps by inflation-busting 6.9% to £14.80 an hour in boost to 150,000 low-paid workers

Voluntary rate paid by 4,000 firms in capital increases by 6.9% - but unions warn that NHS staff will miss out on increase

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Standard exclusive investigation: Inside London’s grooming gang shame

Police failure. Institutional cover-up. Establishment silence: The real story of London’s harrowing grooming gang epidemic

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Accused of Hiding Grooming Gangs as Girls as Young as 13 Raped and Drugged

Allegations emerge that Sadiq Khan's administration suppressed grooming gang reports in London, leaving girls as young as 13 at risk of exploitation.

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Revealed: 500,000 penalty tickets for drivers who failed to pay Silvertown and Blackwall tunnel tolls

About 100,000 fines a month - each with a face value of £180 - have been issued since Sadiq Khan introduced the road charges in April

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Don’t cut London’s affordable housing quotas, Labour MPs urge ministers and mayor

Exclusive: Housing secretary and capital’s mayor face calls from within party for rethink on homebuilding plans

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Will affordable housing be the casualty as London tackles its building emergency?

Collapse in construction activity causing alarm but mayor and Whitehall face pushback over ‘extreme solutions’

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New £700m addition to London Overground 'would be renamed to reflect area's culture and history'

Sadiq Khan confirms that his rebranding of the Overground — dubbed ‘virtue-signalling nonsense’ by critics — would be extended to the West London Orbital

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London developers told: Affordable homes target cut won't last forever

Percentage of new homes in capital required to be affordable will be cut from 35% to 20% - but only for a limited period

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No 10 says talks happening ‘at pace’ across government to lift ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match – as it happened

Fans of Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv banned from match at Aston Villa next month

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London developers to be allowed to reduce percentage of affordable homes

Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest

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Sadiq Khan celebrated birthday on £268million superyacht with billionaire friend

The Mayor of London celebrated his birthday with billionaire Fulham FC owner Shahid Khan

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Oxford Street 'pedestrianised by next summer' as Sadiq Khan fast-tracks £150m traffic-free scheme

Second consultation to start next month - but Tories threaten legal action if they reclaim control of Westminster council

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London Left With Only Two 24-Hour Police Front Counters After Cost Cutting Led To More Closures - Are You Still Safe?

Police counters close amid £260m budget crisis – Met promises more street policing

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Report warns of disastrous "self inflicted" slump in housebuilding in London

Molior report says just 15,000 homes will be under construction across the capital by the end of next year

International Business Times UK

Why Are Women Over 12 Excluded from East London Mosque's Park Charity Event?

Outrage erupts over East London Mosque's 5km fun run on 12 Oct 2025 excluding women/girls over 12 in Victoria Park

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Row breaks out over £1.5million cycle lane that would be alternative to blocked-off Oxford Street

Tory councillors want Westminster council to pause cycleway through Marylebone until impact of mayor’s traffic ban becomes clear

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All beliefs are welcome in London – we cannot allow extremists to divide us

Attacks against Jewish and Muslim communities are on the rise, and some politicians are exacerbating tensions by appealing to our worst instincts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Sadiq Khan rejects calls to exclude Hindu nationalist group from Diwali celebrations

Vishwa Hindu Parishad UK (VHP-UK), also known as the World Council of Hindus UK, are on the official committee of organisers for the City Hall-backed Diwali celebrations in Trafalgar Square on Sunday

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‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave?

Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling

Evening Standard

Picture exclusive: Old City Hall transformation underway as Sadiq Khan's former HQ is dismantled

Four years after the Greater London Authority departed, renovation of iconic ‘glass testicle’ near Tower Bridge gathers pace

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New Year's Eve fireworks: Sadiq Khan hikes ticket prices for tourists, but freezes cost for Londoners

Residents will continue to pay £20 or £35, but visitors will be charged £40 or £55 - a rise of up to 14%

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Sadiq Khan calls for pause in new immigration rules after 200 to 300 TfL staff put at risk of deportation

Mayor says people who joined TfL on graduate visa have been ‘left in limbo’ by Government restriction on foreign workers

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London gets £36.5m boost to tackle homelessness as council temporary accommodation bills soar

It comes after London boroughs revealed they were collectively spending a staggering £5.5m a day to tackle homelessness

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